PSA Reinforced Leather is better than Banded!
 

Reinforced armour has the same AC as banded, but with a much lower weight!

This is true for the following slots:

Face,

Neck,

Boots.

If you want to min max your banded armour set, your best bet is to swap those three slots out for reinforced leather and save a couple of pounds.

Also, everyone knows leather boots look way cooler than chainmail socks!

I always wear cloth hats though for the main character in movies effect of course.

Btw reinforced isn't until velious I thought?. Did it accidentally make it on green?

What JimJam said in the OP Is True

Reinforced Mask : 4 AC / 0.3 WT
Banded Mask : 4 AC / 1.0 WT
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Reinforced Gorget: 5 AC / 0.4 WT
Banded Gorget: 5 AC / 2.0 WT
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Reinforced Boots: 6 AC / 1.9 WT
Banded Boots: 6 AC / 5.0 WT

AC does affect how much melee damage you take on P99. The devs have worked hard to make sure it's as classic as possible.
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https://wiki.project1999.com/Reinforced_Armor
https://wiki.project1999.com/Banded_Armor
https://wiki.project1999.com/Bronze_Armor

The weight on the hats isn't too god awful for monks either.

Raising blacksmithing to banded trivial levels is a hell of a lot cheaper and easier than raising tailoring to reinforced trivial levels.

But yes - weight sensitive people need such information. Thanks.

This makes iit sound like non-bigguns have something like gluten intolerance to heavy gear lmao.

Yeah, but you’re missing the obvious advantage of banded being superior fashion quest.

Sounds like a politically correct way of saying weak people.

Ogre's aren't fat, they're just big boned :p

This guy ogres.